We’d been fans of Boston rock quartet the Rare Occasions ever since we invited them to play our SXSW party with Berklee College of Music. They played a killer closing set at our joint-effort soiree down in Austin, but then our love grew rather intimate when the gents dropped a new EP called Feelers in May.
The lead track off that record is a riffy, rowdy guitar-rock blitz called “Dysphoric,” and we can’t get enough of it; you’ll hear it pretty much every other day on Vanya’s This Is 617 Boston rock and pop radio show.
Now the song has some visuals to go with the sounds, as the Rare Occasions finally released its music video. The “Dysphoric” video is much like the “Dysphoric” song — bullshit-free, right to the point, and shows off the band doing what they do best. It was directed by Jonas Em of Emvision Productions, and you can peep it below.
In the meantime, the Rare Occs (no one calls them that, sorry) have a few live shows lined up now that school’s out for the summer: Friday they’re at the WBRU Summer Concert Series in Waterplace Park, Providence; on August 16 they’re at Fort Adams in Newport for the Newport Storm Luau festival; and on August 19 they return to our part of the world for a show at the Phoenix Landing in Cambridge.
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